THE government, especially the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other concerned offices, will have to work overtime and intensify their anti-poverty programs to address the increasing number of Filipinos who have been experiencing involuntary hunger despite the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and other multibillion-peso initiatives.
The most recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that an estimated 4.8 million families experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the last three months.
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